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PugJesus

@ PugJesus @lemmy.world

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Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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Rough Roman Memes lemmy.world

2y ago

A late Christmas find, but I loved it too much to pass up
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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago
Oh, that's the terrible part about me - I'm horribly lazy. I just share what I find elsewhere, very rarely do I MAKE memes! XD
To be fair, Roman philosophy is... less than robust, lmao. The best two Roman philosophers (Marcus Aurelius and Musonius Rufus) are both very orthodox Stoics in the Greek tradition.

2y ago

A late Christmas find, but I loved it too much to pass up

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

IO! SATVRNALIA!

2y ago

A late Christmas find, but I loved it too much to pass up

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Found Plato

2y ago

A KNIGHT NIMBLE AND FIERCE

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Frogmouth helm, funny enough

2y ago

But with fighting.

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

There's a back counter where the food is prepared that you can see from basically the whole restaurant.

2y ago

My favorite time was on the road with some friends (we're all from up in them thar mountains, so it's not like we were a bunch of New Yorkers) and 5/6 of us could not for the life of us understand our waitress, and we thought she might be speaking a foreign language, until one of our number, who was fluent in the Waffle House dialect of gibberish, translated for us.

2y ago

Leaders of 'Uncommitted' and 'Abandon Harris' movements reflect on Trump's victory and early moves

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

You’re just getting what you voted for others to experience. You should be happy.

It's hilarious that I called it, in a depressing sort of way.

2y ago

Leaders of 'Uncommitted' and 'Abandon Harris' movements reflect on Trump's victory and early moves

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

This is more a Weimar Germany situation, in which the Stalinists accusing the SPD of being 'social fascists' led to the strengthening of the right-wing and the eventual victory of the Nazi Party.

2y ago

Leaders of 'Uncommitted' and 'Abandon Harris' movements reflect on Trump's victory and early moves

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

We e been surviving 24/7 genocide for years, welcome to the party white boy. You get some too, maybe now you’ll finally help.

I love the part where I predicted that the talking point of the day would change to “It’s Good, Actually, that LGBT folk and POC are going to get genocided in America”

2y ago

Leaders of 'Uncommitted' and 'Abandon Harris' movements reflect on Trump's victory and early moves

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Oh, in this case, negative messaging definitely did work.

2y ago

Leaders of 'Uncommitted' and 'Abandon Harris' movements reflect on Trump's victory and early moves

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

You don’t get the votes of the people you’re genocide because maybe the other guy might also effect white people.

Oh, cool, that was the issue with Trump, he'll be affecting white people in the US. Good thing Muslim and Arab Americans, along with other minorities, haven't explicitly been a target of his past attacks and promised future attacks.

2y ago

Leaders of 'Uncommitted' and 'Abandon Harris' movements reflect on Trump's victory and early moves

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Misner said it was a difficult decision to vote for Trump. He said the point of the Abandon Harris campaign was to punish the Democrats for supporting Israel during its war in Gaza, which the campaigners view as a genocide, and he hopes the Trump campaign will be more willing to negotiate with group leaders.

Vindication feels awful here, honestly.

“I think the biggest problem is that your messaging to Arab Americans can’t just be ‘Trump’s a fascist, Trump is Hitler. Big, scary orange man, vote for me.’ Part of being a part of the American political system is being able to separate yourself from your opponent and lay out a better vision. And she did not do that,” Abdelrahman said.

Negative messaging works, as much as people like to pretend it doesn't.
If you saw a literal fascist openly declaring fascist things, and your response to the milquetoast opposition is "Well, you're not seperated enough, stylistically", you're not much more than a fascist enabler.
In what fucking way is "Not fascism" not a better vision than "Literal fucking fascism"?

“She could have at least called for a ceasefire,” Khan said. (Harris repeatedly called for a ceasefire during her campaign, including during her Democratic convention speech.)

Ah, it's just like being on Lemmy!

“Even in politics, humanity should be the first and the foremost thing to to be respected, to be valued, right? And [the] Democratic Party clearly, clearly, for an entire year showed us they do not care about human life,” Khan said. “They do not care about their constituents, how they feel about the massacre.”

Ah, yes, humanity is the first and foremost thing to be respected, which is why LGBT Americans have been served to fascists on a silver platter as a protest vote. Peak humanity.

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Now heap on the “No, YOU support genocide by objecting to genocide” shit like you always do.

You support genocide by doing everything you can to support the election of the more genocidal option. Didn't realize "More genocide = bad" was considered a hot take before this election year, but it seems that many online simply have no real sense of morality. But hey, you got your precious Bothsides GOP administration in, so it's a success in the end for you, huh?

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

lol

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

This is a shill accusation.

It's an accusation that all you have are canned talking points with no relevance to the actual person you're claiming to argue with. Like those GOP voters who waddle into their polling place with a handy pamphlet telling them who and what to vote for - it's not that they're shills. It's that they have no understanding of politics and utterly lack imagination, relying instead on repetitive tribalist bullshit to engage, for what little that's worth, in the civic process.

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

He’s having a conversation with you, yes.

That's a definite 'no', then. Unsurprising given your views.

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

It was one of a number of factors.

Nice backpedal, lmao.

Do you suppose they lost because they didn’t sell enough weapons to your favorite person for your favorite activity?

Nowhere have I said anything even vaguely resembling that, but I guess that your list of talking points isn't all that great at addressing people with actual political views.

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

That if Democrats continued their support for genocide, they would lose. You just screamed “Russian”! at anyone who dared to day that.

So you think that the Dem support of Palestinian genocide is what caused the Dem loss this year? This is fascinating. Literally just outright admitting to the "More genocide is Good, Actually" viewpoint.

No, genocide loving shit who didn’t pressure Democrats to drop support for genocide accomplished that. And good work. You got the only thing you ever wanted: TRUMP.

lmao, pure projection. You keep licking GOP boots in service to genocide, though, I know genocide is an addiction that's hard for you to break.

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Criticism of those who supply weapons for genocide is not support for genocide. Criticism of those who throw trans people under the bus is also not support for genocide.
Spending a year shouting abuse at anyone who dares to say that Democrats should not be supporting genocide? That shit right there is support for genocide.

Good thing I said that Democrats should not be supporting genocide even at the time. But hey, who needs facts when you can engage in delusions to absolve yourself of your guilt? Keep supporting as many genocides as possible, buddy, I'm sure it'll eventually work out and your magic political pendulum will swing the other way.

We had an election. You can no longer pretend that “We’re second worst” is the issue you and the rest of the pro-genocide wing of the second shittiest party spent a year pretending it was. We tried to warn you, and you interpreted being able to see the writing on the wall as trump support from russians.

Tried to warn us of... what? That you were going to do your damndest to ensure the GOP got into power and got to execute all their favorite genocides?

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

It's funny, considering that I'm incredibly anti-Israel, I just thought that enabling multiple genocides, like you and your ilk so tirelessly worked for, was not actually a solution to Palestinian genocide. Ridiculous, I know! Surely the genocide of American minorities and of Ukrainians will bring peace to Palestine!

Or have you already moved on to the next talking point as so many of your compatriots have done, of "Well yes, American genocide doesn't help, but it's only fair if Palestine is genocided that American minorities are genocided too!"